English Major, English Teaching Concentration

Core Courses (9 hours)

English majors in all three concentrations must take three courses focusing on the fundamental skills of reading, writing, and debate.

ENGL 200: Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture

ENGL 301: Introduction to Critical Theory

ENGL 350: Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture

Historical Surveys (6 hours)

English Teaching students must take two survey courses covering the study of literary form and history across time and space—the sooner after taking ENGL 200, the better.

ENGL 209: Early British Literature and Culture

ENGL 255: Early American Literature and Culture

Period Courses (15 credit hours)

In addition to the broad sweep of the historical surveys, English Teaching students are required to take five courses providing in-depth encounters with the texts of a given era. These five courses must be spread across British, American, and Anglophone literary history:

Courses marked with a * may or may not count for Pre-1800 Literature & Culture depending on their topics for a given semester.

Medieval (to 1550)

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 202: Medieval Literature and Culture

ENGL 216: Legends of King Arthur

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Medieval if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 407: Introduction to Old English*

ENGL 411: Chaucer

ENGL 412: Topics in Medieval British and Irish Literature

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

Early Modern (1550-1660 excluding Shakespeare)

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 204: Renaissance Literature and Culture

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Early Modern if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 416: Topics in British Drama to 1660

ENGL 421: Renaissance Poetry & Prose

ENGL 423: Milton

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

Shakespeare

ENGL 117: Shakespeare on Film

ENGL 218: Intro to Shakespeare

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Shakespeare if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 418: Shakespeare

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

Eighteenth Century (1660-1800)

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 206: Enlightenment Literature and Culture

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Eighteenth Century if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 427: Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENGL 428: British Drama, 1660-1800

ENGL 429: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Lit and Culture*

Courses marked with a * may or may not count for Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture depending on their topics for a given semester.

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 207: Romantic Literature and Culture

ENGL 208: Victorian Literature and Culture

ENGL 250: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 431: Topics in British Romantic Literature

ENGL 435: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

ENGL 449: American Romanticism

ENGL 450: Becoming Modern: American Literature, 1865-1914

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 462: Topics in Modern Fiction*

Courses marked with a * may or may not count for Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture depending on their topics for a given semester.

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 211: Introduction to Modern African Literature

ENGL 213: Modernist Literature and Culture

ENGL 241: Modern Poetry

ENGL 251: The Twentieth-Century American Novel

ENGL 253: Topics in Literature and New Media*

ENGL 260: Modern African American Literature and Culture

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 270: American Film Genres*

ENGL 272: Minority Images in Amer Film

ENGL 273: American Cinema, 1950-2000

ENGL 280: Women Writers*

ENGL 281: Women in the Literary Imagination*

ENGL 325: Topics in LGBT Literature and Film*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 359: Literary Responses to the Holocaust

ENGL 373: Special Topics in Film Studies*

ENGL 374: World Cinema in English*

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 441: Innovation and Conflict in British and Irish Modernism

ENGL 451: American Literature in the Age of Modernism

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 459: Topics in American Indian Literature*

ENGL 460: Literature of American Minorities*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 462: Topics in Modern Fiction*

ENGL 470: Modern African Fiction

Courses marked with a * may or may not count for Contemporary Literature & Culture depending on their topics for a given semester.

ENGL 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar*

ENGL 242: Contemporary Poetry

ENGL 253: Topics in Lit and New Media*

ENGL 261: Topics in Lit and Culture*

ENGL 265: Introduction to American Indian Literature

ENGL 270: American Film Genres*

ENGL 276: Asian Film Genres

ENGL 280: Women Writers*

ENGL 281: Women in the Literary Imagination*

ENGL 285: Postcolonial Literature in English

ENGL 286: Asian American Literature

ENGL 325: Topics in LGBT Literature and Film*

ENGL 350: Writing About Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Contemporary Literature & Culture if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)

ENGL 373: Special Topics in Film Studies*

ENGL 374: World Cinema in English*

ENGL 380: Topics in Writing Studies*

ENGL 396: English Honors Seminar*

ENGL 442: Contemporary British and Irish Literature

ENGL 452: The Postwar Era and Contemporary American Literature

ENGL 455: Major Authors*

ENGL 458: Latina/o Performance

ENGL 459: Topics in American Indian Literature*

ENGL 460: Literature of American Minorities*

ENGL 461: Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 462: Topics in Modern Fiction*

Language, Composition, & Pedagogy Courses (9 credit hours)

To prepare for a career teaching secondary school language arts, English Teaching students must take the following two courses:

ENGL 402: Descriptive English Grammar

ENGL 481: Composition Theory and Practice

To complete this requirement, students must also take a third class from this list:

ENGL 310: Introduction to the Study of the English Language

ENGL 311: History of the English Language

ENGL 380: Topics in Writing Studies

ENGL 482: Writing Technologies

ENGL 485: Literature for the High School

BTW 490: Special Topics in Professional Writing

Difference & Diaspora

To deepen their understanding of the historical and contemporary disparities in society and culture, all English majors must make sure that one of the classes they take to fulfill their requirements is a Difference & Diaspora course—a course focusing on race, ethnicity, indigeneity, postcoloniality, gender, or sexuality.

Courses marked with a * may or may not count for Difference & Diaspora depending on their topics for a given semester.

ENGL 112: Literature of Global Culture

ENGL 150: Black Literature in America

ENGL 211: Introduction to African Literature

ENGL 222: Jewish American and US Minority Literatures in Dialogue

ENGL 223: Jewish Storytelling

ENGL 224: Latina/o Popular Culture

ENGL 225: Introduction to Latina/o Literature

ENGL 253: Topics in Literature and New Media*

ENGL 259: Early African American Literature and Culture

ENGL 260: Modern African American Literature and Culture

ENGL 261: Topics in Literature and Culture*

ENGL 265: Intro to American Indian Literature

ENGL 272: Minority Images in American Film

ENGL 275: American Indians & Film

ENGL 276: Asian Film Genres

ENGL 280: Women Writers*

ENGL 281: Women in the Literary Imagination*

ENGL 284: Modern Jewish Literature

ENGL 285: Postcolonial Literature in English

ENGL 286: Asian American Literature

ENGL 325 Topics in LGBT Literature and Film

ENGL 330: Slavery and Identity

ENGL 350: Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture (can only count for Difference & Diaspora if the course topic is appropriate and the course is not also being used to satisfy the Core Courses requirement)